Pith Number

pith:MLK4JFXM

pith:2017:MLK4JFXM65KPKO3HYNI4GSTKEN

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Practical issues in decoy-state quantum key distribution based on the central limit theorem

A.K. Fedorov, A.S. Trushechkin, E.O. Kiktenko

arxiv:1702.08531 v2 · 2017-02-27 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MLK4JFXM65KPKO3HYNI4GSTKEN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:16.410481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62d5c496ecf754f53b67c351c34a6a234aada1ba8badb909772fce2211fc976b

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08531 · arxiv_version: 1702.08531v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08531 · pith_short_12: MLK4JFXM65KP · pith_short_16: MLK4JFXM65KPKO3H · pith_short_8: MLK4JFXM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MLK4JFXM65KPKO3HYNI4GSTKEN \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 62d5c496ecf754f53b67c351c34a6a234aada1ba8badb909772fce2211fc976b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "925cbc233b4556a23441e66ed54171292125b4150afcded696cd62524239de0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T21:12:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "860b4af9b3d68b8bd944a0903623c41f5c9d9cbe796b942a7638e27dc7a549c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.08531",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}